Auðunn Jónsson

ID: 2084
Date of birth : 1852
Place of birth : Borgarfjarðarsýsla
Date of death : 1930

Auðunn Jónsson was born in Borgarfjarðarsýsla in 1852. He died in Manitoba on August 9, 1930. He took the last name Johnson in the west.

Spouse: Sigríður Jóhanna Erlendsdóttir b. 1852 in Mýrasýsla.

Children: 1. Þorleifur b. April 21, 1881, d. July 12, 1908 2. Soffía b. 1883 3. Steinunn b. 1886 4. Sigurður b. in Winnipeg in 1887. 5. Jónas.

They came west to Winnipeg, Manitoba in 1887 and settled in New Iceland. They named their land Grímsstaðir.